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Watch for the Demon sex, stay for the Alien DNA...
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"A closed mouth gathers no feet" "Ignorance is a renewable resource" P.J.O'Rourke "It's all god's handiwork, there's little quality control applied", Fox26 reporter on Texas granite You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. Art Buchwald |
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Qanon conspiracy theorists apparently got a doll from the movie "Trolls 2" taken off the market due to their complaints. The doll features a pad sensor in its crotch area - underneath clothing - to detect when the doll has been sat down, and makes the doll laugh in that case. Qanons and Pizzagaters decided that the pad sensor is actually a button that children are meant to reach under the doll's skirt and deliberately press to make the doll giggle, which is intended to teach them that being molested is fun.
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It does, unfortunately. Once Qanon has "opened your eyes" to the global Democrat-run pedophile mega-ring, almost everything you see in the world proves its existence, including alternative explanations which naturally have been planted by the conspirators and must be resisted.
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Q-followers are applying their skills at interpreting Scripture to the messages - in both cases, you first decide what you want the message to be, and then find support for it in the text.
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It's not a new thing. It's as old as modern conspiracy theories have been.
Even Qanon's very specific claims about elite satanic pedophile rings are just rehashes of the baloney Alex Jones has been bellowing out for years. This is exactly what the Bohemian Grove is supposedly about, for instance. In fact I'd be willing to bet Alex Jones is more than a little sore that some rando came out of nowhere, ripped off his act wholesale, and has managed to turn it into this huge revitalized thing that makes international headlines, and all completely without Jones' input or involvement. |
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I'm in agreement here, apart form a small nitpick of the highlighted.
I thought the whole point of QAnus was the deliberate vagueness, so that the Qlingons can interpret the droppings in any way they please. I have asked Bubba if QAnus has actually named any paedophile Satanists, or whether Trump has exposed any of these supposed cliques, but I have not had an answer. Has this happened yet? |
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Last night I took a little trip down the rabbit hole and viewed part of (couldn't stomach watching the whole thing) a yt video on Tom Hanks as pedo sex trafficker.
Proof was non-existent, but he did work at Pixar (little boys walk in the Pixar building and don't come out!) and has been honored with Greek citizenship (pedo is a disability!) so that's evidently proof enough in Qanonlandistan. |
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Who in their right mind would believe that tens of thousands of children are abused and killed and their blood consumed by politicians and movie stars for kicks and that Donald Trump, of all people, is the saviour who'll unmask and stop them all?
Oh, right. They're not in their right minds. They should all be in mental institutions. I thought we had become sufficiently educated to not fall for these ridiculous demonisations now, but it's clear that I was wrong. |
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Thank you for bringing this up. An argument certainly can be made that the conspiracy of Democrat elites using children's blood as a drug during Satanic rituals is a modern spin on the very old Jewish blood libel, which held that Jews needed the blood of Christian children for certain rituals or as an ingredient in religiously-significant foods.
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It's gotten positively X-Files-ish. For instance: I do not know what Qanon's current view on the coronavirus is - that is to say, whether along with the rest of the MAGA set they believe it's a hoax entirely or at least being deliberately overstated to harm Trump. However, in the early days, they had quite a different mindset. I distinctly remember in April sometime reading that Qanon's position was that the coronavirus was made up by Trump to keep people indoors while the US military's "pedophile task force" conducted a secret operation to rescue thousands of "mole children" from underground bases, most notably beneath New York's Central Park, on Trump's orders. The tent hospital set up on Central Park during this period was actually secretly housing these rescued children, not COVID victims; and the USNS Comfort was secretly in New York to receive and treat them. The whole affair had to be kept out of the public eye because these children had been born and raised completely underground to be sex slaves and of course to be harvested for "adrenochrome", and as a result many of them were heavily deformed and blind, and the sight of them was feared might make normal people go insane, as supposedly many soldiers who participated in the raids and rescues developed severe psychological problems.
I promise you I'm not making any of this up or exaggerating in the least, and I genuinely wish I had submitted the relevant links and social media posts here at the time. |
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Coincidentally, this piece which came out today briefly mentions the "mole children" I described last night. However it is mainly about how the Qanon delusion has been leading some parents who have lost custody of their children for whatever reason, to kidnap or attempt to kidnap those children "back" from the relatives or foster parents that CPS has placed them with.
The incident described at the beginning of the article happened in June, with the man livestreaming from his vehicle in the middle of a police chase with his five children in the car, claiming that his wife and 13-year-old daughter were secretly members of the pedophile conspiracy. |
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More Q-nuttery.
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Considering the fact that Trump's P. T. Barnum gene drives him to publically pat himself on the back at every opportunity, the idea that kids were being rescued by the thousands on his orders and he's keeping quiet about it is another fantastically false aspect of the Q-pack narrative.
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Trump is a strategic master playing 4D chess with the world, he wants you to think he's a petulant vindictive narcissistic blowhard for reasons that are incomprehensible to mere mortals. It's all part of the long game he's playing.
When his true masterplan is revealed you'll all feel foolish when you realise that he's been playing us all for fools while he secretly worked his magic behind the scenes and has saved the world. I can't quite remember what it is he's saving the world from, but I assure you it's going to happen any day soon. |
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It's more than that. They are nutjobs who are having their beliefs supported by the people we would expect to be their voice of reason. Can you imagine if McCain had someone at a rally ask him about Obama's satanic pedophile ring? He'd, politely explain that Obama was a nice and decent man with whom he had disagreements about policy. Romney would likely do the same. Now, the president gets asked about Q and moves on to the next question. Better yet, a former national security advisor took the Q pledge. They are nutjobs without a restraining influence.
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At least there's a sign of GOP pushback against the QAnon BS, though it's hard to say what difference it will make.
Rep. Kinzinger: ‘It’s time’ for leaders to disavow QAnon [Politico]
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I started the original thread.
I foresaw this exponential rise of this stupid theory. Somehow it tapped into its adherents a deep sense of belonging to something, where they had never really belonged before. It is why I tried to debunk and counter it early on, but it was like playing whack a mole. Just been watching ever since. Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk |
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Suppose last year there was a huge kerfuffle of a national hoax involving some in congress, state dept, media, FBI, private covert intel providers, CIA, etc.
Could it fly without some fancy hidden sub-architecture under the hood.? Maybe someone thought to look for that, or maybe these inside operatives decided to become whistleblowers. We will have to get busy debunking this one, or we are screwed. Calling all Topic Masters.! Code Red. This is no drill.
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I can tell by the TORE in the link that Bubba has seen or heard about Millie weaver’s “documentary.” Millie Weaver got arrested for some domestic incident over the weekend and used it to publicize her garbage documentary.
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